Disaster! 26 Die In Amboy Ammunition Blast

Clip: 350621_1_1

Year Shot: 1950 (Actual Year)

Audio: No

Video: B/W

Tape Master: 1545

Original Film: 023-354-01

HD: N/A

Location: South Amboy, NJ

Timecode: 00:44:42 - 00:46:00

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Disaster! 26 Die In Amboy Ammunition Blast This once-prosperous industrial town is a shattered wreck following a terrific explosion of four ammunition-laden barges on the waterfront. Hardly a building is left standing in the blast that claimed twenty-six lives and left hundreds injured.